Daughter of French Chef and TV personality Jacques Pepin and his wife Glora Pepin.
At 27 years old debuted in her first cooking show Jacques Pepin "Cooking WIth Claudine" in 1995. She had worked in culinary jobs but hadn't learned to cook. This was Jacques way of teaching her to cook and the father/daughter team became PBS TV hit! Additional shows with both Pepin's cooking together were commissioned and because hits in their own right.
Graduated from Boston University with degree in International Relations.
In 2001, she met her future husband Rollie Wesen at a dinner party. He was the Chef at Jacques Brasserie, the Upper East Side NYC restaurant.
They would later marry in March, 2003.